{"id":838,"date":"2007-09-11T06:09:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=838"},"modified":"2017-01-25T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:42:33","slug":"chronological-middle-earth-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/chronological-middle-earth-reading-list","title":{"rendered":"Chronological Middle-earth Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/hobbiton.jpg\" alt=\"Hobbiton\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/hobbiton.jpg 800w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/hobbiton-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/hobbiton-768x509.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/hobbiton-500x331.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to read Tolkien&#8217;s Middle-earth writings in chronological order, you might want to check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Chronological-MiddleEarth-Reading-List.pdf\">Chronological MiddleEarth Reading List<\/a>. It&#8217;s available in pdf format.<\/p>\n<p>This reading list is a guide for those who want to read Tolkien\u2019s works in the order in which they took place in Middle-earth, rather than in the order Tolkien originally wrote them. The reading order is NOT recommended for those who have never read any of Tolkien\u2019s works before. The reader should have already read <em>The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings<\/em> and <em>The Silmarillion<\/em> at least once before attempting this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to read Tolkien&#8217;s Middle-earth writings in chronological order, you might want to check out my Chronological MiddleEarth Reading List. It&#8217;s available in pdf format. This reading list is a guide for those who want to read Tolkien\u2019s works in the order in which they took place in Middle-earth, rather than in the order Tolkien originally wrote them. The reading order is NOT recommended for those who have never read any of Tolkien\u2019s works before. The reader should have already read The Hobbit, The Lord&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,65,854,900],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-tolkien","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-the-hobbit","tag-the-silmarillion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/hobbiton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-dw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}